Body found in Calhoun identified

Published: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.

Last Modified: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 6:12 p.m.

The skeletal remains found Tuesday in rural Calhoun County near Piedmont have been identified as a woman missing since October of 2009.

A press release from the Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson said dental records identified the body as Carla Michelle Fuqua.

Her death has been classified as a homicide, the release said.

Fuqua’s body was found in the woods not far from the Chief Ladiga Trail.

The department’s Cold Case Unit had received information that the remains could be related to a cold case it had been working on.

Investigators from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department, District Attorney Brian McVeigh, the Piedmont Police Department, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force are working on the case.

<p>The skeletal remains found Tuesday in rural Calhoun County near Piedmont have been identified as a woman missing since October of 2009.</p><p>A press release from the Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson said dental records identified the body as Carla Michelle Fuqua.</p><p>Her death has been classified as a homicide, the release said.</p><p>Fuqua's body was found in the woods not far from the Chief Ladiga Trail.</p><p>The department's Cold Case Unit had received information that the remains could be related to a cold case it had been working on.</p><p>Investigators from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department, District Attorney Brian McVeigh, the Piedmont Police Department, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force are working on the case.</p>